All 50 Uses of
indicate
in
War and Peace
- Anna Pavlovna almost closed her eyes to indicate that neither she nor anyone else had a right to criticize what the Empress desired or was pleased with.†
Chpt 1
- Prince Vasili did not reply, though, with the quickness of memory and perception befitting a man of the world, he indicated by a movement of the head that he was considering this information.†
Chpt 1
- "Lise!" said Prince Andrew dryly, raising his voice to the pitch which indicates that patience is exhausted.†
Chpt 1
- The Englishman nodded, but gave no indication whether he intended to accept this challenge or not.†
Chpt 1 *
- Prince Vasili without acknowledging the bow turned to Anna Mikhaylovna, answering her query by a movement of the head and lips indicating very little hope for the patient.†
Chpt 1
- This is my son," she added, indicating Boris.†
Chpt 1
- "Take a glass of boiled water and put a pinch of cream of tartar," and he indicated with his delicate fingers what he meant by a pinch.†
Chpt 1
- Pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved toward the sofa she had indicated.†
Chpt 1
- Anna Mikhaylovna with her eyes indicated a chair that stood beside the bed.†
Chpt 1
- Anna Mikhaylovna indicated by her attitude her consciousness of the pathetic importance of these last moments of meeting between the father and son.†
Chpt 1
- The large table covered with books and plans, the tall glass-fronted bookcases with keys in the locks, the high desk for writing while standing up, on which lay an open exercise book, and the lathe with tools laid ready to hand and shavings scattered around—all indicated continuous, varied, and orderly activity.†
Chpt 1
- Prince Andrew went up and kissed his father on the spot indicated to him.†
Chpt 1
- He indicated a place beside him to his daughter-in-law.†
Chpt 1
- It was plain that the commander admired his regiment, rejoiced in it, and that his whole mind was engrossed by it, yet his strut seemed to indicate that, besides military matters, social interests and the fair sex occupied no small part of his thoughts.†
Chpt 2
- But despite himself, on his face too that same indication of something new and stern showed round the mouth.†
Chpt 2
- "Buonaparte?" said Bilibin inquiringly, puckering up his forehead to indicate that he was about to say something witty.†
Chpt 2
- And he released Bolkonski's arm to indicate that he had now quite finished.†
Chpt 2
- "When speaking to the Emperor, try as far as you can to praise the way that provisions are supplied and the routes indicated," said Bilibin, accompanying him to the hall.†
Chpt 2
- "That's our battery," said the staff officer indicating the highest point.†
Chpt 2
- When she entered with her heavy step, treading on her heels, the gentlemen and Mademoiselle Bourienne rose and the little princess, indicating her to the gentlemen, said: "Voila Marie!"†
Chpt 3
- Without answering, Rostov shook the soldier's Cross of St. George fastened to the cording of his uniform and, indicating a bandaged arm, glanced at Berg with a smile.†
Chpt 3
- They are bringing another!" cried one of the officers, indicating a captive French dragoon who was being brought in on foot by two Cossacks.†
Chpt 3
- From information he had received the evening before, from the sound of wheels and footsteps heard by the outposts during the night, by the disorderly movement of the Russian columns, and from all indications, he saw clearly that the allies believed him to be far away in front of them, and that the columns moving near Pratzen constituted the center of the Russian army, and that that center was already sufficiently weakened to be successfully attacked.†
Chpt 3
- He greeted the men of the foremost regiment and gave them the order to march, thereby indicating that he intended to lead that column himself.†
Chpt 3
- They say this one is the commander of all the Emperor Alexander's Guards," said the first one, indicating a Russian officer in the white uniform of the Horse Guards.†
Chpt 3
- Denisov did not take his eyes off her and beat time with his saber in a way that clearly indicated that if he was not dancing it was because he would not and not because he could not.†
Chpt 4
- * To indicate he did not want more tea.†
Chpt 5
- Besides this refined selection of society Anna Pavlovna's receptions were also distinguished by the fact that she always presented some new and interesting person to the visitors and that nowhere else was the state of the political thermometer of legitimate Petersburg court society so dearly and distinctly indicated.†
Chpt 5
- He took the seat indicated to him beside the fair Helene and listened to the general conversation.†
Chpt 5
- "You know her husband, of course?" said Anna Pavlovna, closing her eyes and indicating Helene with a sorrowful gesture.†
Chpt 5
- Prince Andrew had grown thinner, paler, and more manly-looking, but what amazed and estranged Pierre till he got used to it were his inertia and a wrinkle on his brow indicating prolonged concentration on some one thought.†
Chpt 5
- No doubt he" (indicating Rostov) "has connections on the staff.†
Chpt 5
- "Yet you do not care to avail yourself of the privilege, Prince," said Speranski, indicating by a smile that he wished to finish amiably an argument which was embarrassing for his companion.†
Chpt 6
- That gray-haired man," she said, indicating an old man with a profusion of silver-gray curly hair, who was surrounded by ladies laughing at something he said.†
Chpt 6
- "Ah, here she is, the Queen of Petersburg, Countess Bezukhova," said Peronskaya, indicating Helene who had just entered.†
Chpt 6
- "That is Bezukhova's brother, Anatole Kuragin," she said, indicating a handsome officer of the Horse Guards who passed by them with head erect, looking at something over the heads of the ladies.†
Chpt 6
- And that stout one in spectacles is the universal Freemason," she went on, indicating Pierre.†
Chpt 6
- He stepped forward in the direction Pierre indicated.†
Chpt 6
- After the cry of the hounds came the deep tones of the wolf call from Daniel's hunting horn; the pack joined the first three hounds and they could be heard in full cry, with that peculiar lift in the note that indicates that they are after a wolf.†
Chpt 7
- The tone of the conversation was such as indicated that no one approved of what was being done in the political world.†
Chpt 8
- … Bonjour, Sonya dear!" she added, turning to Sonya and indicating by this French greeting her slightly contemptuous though affectionate attitude toward her.†
Chpt 8
- Anatole went up to him and began speaking to him, looking at and indicating the Rostovs' box.†
Chpt 8
- He indicated to him Princess Mary and Julie Karagina.†
Chpt 8
- "Yes, that's it, she means to elope with him, but what am I to do?" thought she, recalling all the signs that clearly indicated that Natasha had some terrible intention.†
Chpt 8
- She stopped, seeing in the forward thrust of her husband's head, in his glowing eyes and his resolute gait, the terrible indications of that rage and strength which she knew and had herself experienced after his duel with Dolokhov.†
Chpt 8
- Balashev bowed his head with an air indicating that he would like to make his bow and leave, and only listened because he could not help hearing what was said to him.†
Chpt 9
- It was indicative of dissipation and the exercise of authority.†
Chpt 9
- This might indicate a wish to get rid of him, and therefore Prince Vasili's opinion continued to be correct though he was not now in any hurry to express it.†
Chpt 10
- Rostov's deferential tone seemed to indicate that though he would consider himself happy to be acquainted with her, he did not wish to take advantage of her misfortunes to intrude upon her.†
Chpt 10
- "Ask them," replied Prince Andrew, indicating the officers.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(indicate) to show (point out, demonstrate, express, or suggest)editor's notes: The meaning of suggest is less common, but not unusual--especially in the past tense in medicine. For example, "Medication is indicated for someone with her blood pressure."
The form, indicator can refer to many different kinds of things including intentional signals (such as a turn indicator), gauges (such as one that indicates pressure), or a measurement (such as an economic or chemical indicator).